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holbrad

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    Comment #49025024

    I mean it's absolutely true that China is loving the American AI backlash and is fueling it. How purposely they are doing this is unclear, but they have the motive and means. Let y…

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    Comment #49014307

    Precisely, if we expect AI/LLM progress to continue as it currently is, then data centers seem like a sure fire bet. They will just print money if AI reached that level.

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    Comment #48937668

    If you believe AI will become increasing important, which most people in tech seem to agree on. Having data centers in your country seems incredibly important, especially to the EU…

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    Comment #48937649

    I mean bribes can be good. Sure you can build a data center near me, if your going to fund a new swimming pool and library with the taxes you pay. Also I get reduced local taxes? E…

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    Comment #48937612

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    Comment #48937555

    Ah yes, the majority of people obviously don't know about climate change! It's far grimmer to realise that people know, they just don't think we have an acceptable answer yet. I'm …

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    Comment #47090592

    You are misreading the benchmark. https://artificialanalysis.ai/#aa-omniscience-hallucination- ... If you look at the results 3.0 hallucinates an awful lot, when it's wrong. It's j…

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    Comment #47090559

    This isn't actually correct. Gemini 3.0 gets a very high score because it's very often correct, but it does not have a low hallucination rate. https://artificialanalysis.ai/#aa-omn…

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    Comment #46691470

    I'm just genuinely really confused by this take. It's a 100x easier to build products today than it was in the 1990's. (I don't think that's an exaggeration in the slightest) It wo…

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    Comment #46644834

    There's an awful lot of people running these tools in YOLO mode. https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/the-normalization-...

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    Comment #46640914

    >isn't going anywhere That's not true at all, Reform could get in and remove it day 1!

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    Comment #46423816

    There generally aren't underfed people in the US. This just simply isn't true. The opposite is a far bigger issue.

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    Comment #46328773

    But it's undeniable that culture and how that's reflected in governance have a huge impact: South vs North Korea.

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    Comment #46325281

    I gave the table of inputs and outputs to both Gemini 3.0 flash and GPT 5.2 instant and they were stumped. https://t3.chat/share/j2tnfwwful https://t3.chat/share/k1xhgisrw1

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    Comment #46225873

    I thought it was pretty settled that it was social contagion similar to other mental illnesses in the past.

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    Comment #46098407

    A very reputable source...

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    Comment #46096904

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    Comment #45920851

    I know Andrej Karpathy mentions it in his youtube series so there's a good chance of it being true.

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    Comment #45861308

    I this is exactly how you should respond to outrageous demands. The UK should pound sand.

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    Comment #45520983

    I'm genuinely baffled by the assertion that there isn't objective reality.

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    Comment #45520955

    You can 100% use dogs as tools as we've done for thousands of years.

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    Comment #45484892

    Certainly wouldn't recommend MAUI. Even using it as a simple shell with for Blazor Hybrid was noticeably harder than WPF. If Microsoft aren't using it themselves in any real capaci…

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    Comment #45468780

    Very strange comment. Literally hundreds of millions of people have set up an Iphone, it's trivial if your aren't cognitively impaired and/or very elderly. I don't understand how y…

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    Comment #45241269

    "Blue zones" are debunked bullshit.